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A long awaited update
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The past days I spent a few hours moving my personal services (page, blog, gallery) on glezos.com from my previous provider, Dreamhost, to my favourite shared hosting provider, Webfaction (disclaimer: shameless affiliate link).
If things went well, you should be reading this in something that resembles English with letters being one next to the other. Kidding aside, the blog should be loading blazingly faster than before and the photos from the gallery should actually load up in the blog.
How come?
Dreamhost is an inexpensive web hosting company, suitable for folks wanting abundant space for PHP applications, panel simplicity and simple one-click-install environments. The price one pays for the massive bandwidth and storage is quite good; in fact it’s so cheap some people choose Dreamhost instead of Amazon’s S3. We’ve been hosting more than 30 sites there for friends, local LUGs and NPOs, and for the most part, everyone is satisfied.
We chose Webfaction for hosting the development of Transifex and a few other Python-powered sites. Originally python-hosting.com, Webfaction is considered one of the best hosting providers out there. Even hostingthatsuck.com recommends webfaction since it was amazed that there were almost no negative reviews about their service.
The Webfaction folks were kind enough to offer us free hosting and our experience was nothing but amazing. The domain/app/website notion in the panel is intuitive and flexible, allowing you to switch domains, applications and servers in a snap. Pretty useful for staging newer versions of software brought to production mode. And their servers are not overcrowded at all: loads on my 3 servers right now are 0.1, 0.3 and 0.35.
So yesterday I also moved glezos.com on Webfaction. I’ve had all the usual knots to untie with Wordpress upgrades and moves, but eventually everything worked great. Well, not quite everything, since there has been a mixup with the MX records. Both the blog and gallery were upgraded and I did some work on optimizing performance. According to pingdom, the blog mainpage is returned in 1 second and loads up (but the large photos) in 3 seconds. Which makes both me and my server admins happy. =) The gallery is even more impressive: 0.8 seconds for showing up main page.
At this point I’ll raise my glass to all sysadmins in the world for messing with these stuff every friggin’ day. Here’s to you guys.
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βραδάκι, Κυριακή 1η Φεβρουαρίου 2009
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